A 4.4-acre plot of land used to host Providence’s World Cup festivities next to the city’s Amtrak station is the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority’s choice for its state-of-the-art transit center. On Thursday, RIPTA’s board of directors voted 6-0 to direct contractor Next Wave Partners to move ahead with drafting bid specs and cost estimates […]

Earlier this year, as part of his department’s “Freedom to Drive” initiative, which aims to lessen the time Americans spend “staring at a car bumper,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy asked states to single out their most congested roadways. An unfinished plan to directly connect Route 4 and Interstate 95 in all directions was at […]

As voters this election cycle weigh ballot questions allowing people to register and vote on Election Day, and substituting an all-party primary in for the traditional party-based primaries, early in-person voting remains an enduring and often utilized election reform in Massachusetts.

The statues will be kept in storage and off the building while litigation continues at the lower court level. The visages of a winged Michael and towering Florian extinguishing fire await further judgment, but the ruling signals a rough legal road ahead for Quincy.

On Aug, 20, 1999, crowds streamed through the Providence Place mall, ready to celebrate the long-awaited opening day of the downtown shopping destination.  On Thursday — exactly 27 years later — a much smaller and more muted celebration unfolded as the mall’s new owners gathered outside the first-floor Apple store to announce that they had […]

“It’s not that our current system is good. It’s that this alternate one is worse,” says Jonathan Cohn, policy director for Progressive Mass.

Members of the Family Child Care Chapter of SEIU Local 509 called on lawmakers to raise reimbursement rates for child care providers who care for kids who are eligible for financial assistance.

If seeing is believing, the single foundation shaft resting on the bank of the Seekonk River below an open sky where the westbound Washington Bridge once loomed offers little reassurance. Nor does Gov. Dan McKee’s repeated promise that the replacement highway construction is progressing well, even ahead of schedule. Enter animation. The 2 minute and […]

A discarded cigarette butt has led to the arrest of a 41-year-old Woonsocket man accused of raping two women in separate attacks in Hopkinton and North Stonington, Connecticut, 21 years ago. Robert Czerwein was ordered held without bail Wednesday after his arraignment on two counts of first-degree sexual assault in 4th Division District Court for […]

In a unanimous decision Wednesday, the SJC declared the collection of conservationists and residents did not have standing to block the project.